Is This Egg Alive?

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hey guys, I have a quick question. A bunch of my eggs looked really good last night, with veins and tiny little embryos. I pulled one out tonight to just take a quick peek, and it did not look right. So then I looked at all the eggs that were looking good yesterday, and most looked like this:

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Are they alive, or did I somehow kill them since last night?


Here's one picture of one of the eggs that seemed to be coming along slower than the others. I have three that look like this. I know the picture's not very good, but you can make out veins:

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These are day six duck eggs. What do you all think? I'm so worried that the first egg up there is dead. If it is, I probably only have about three viable eggs left out of 16 :hit
 
Yes, but this one had veins yesterday, and now it looks like it doesn't, which is bad. And it's really yellow, which is another sign of death. I'm almost 85% sure the little guy died...
 


I did already :) I also compared them to Metzer's duck egg candling sequence, which helps a lot because they're duck eggs and they develop slower than chicken eggs. Really thinking this guy quit on me. I asked in a thread in the duck forum too so hopefully I get a solid answer. I'm thinking at this point I'll just leave them in the incubator and watch them for a few days.
 

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